noun · feminine
pragmateias
Greekπραγματεία (pragmateia)
Strong’sG4230
a business, an occupation
stem pragmatei-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
πραγματεία, v.s. πραγματία.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4230 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidprag-mat-i'-ah
a transaction, i.e. negotiation
Fromfrom G4231;
King Jamesaffair.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pragmateias | pragmateiais |
| object accusative | pragmateian | pragmateiain |
| direct address vocative | pragmateiar | pragmateiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pragmateiau | pragmateiaiu |
| to, for dative | pragmateia | pragmateiai1×πραγματείαις |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
pragmateia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
pragmateiai“affairs”to, fordative plural1×
2 Timothy 2:4“affairs”oudenos strateuerōtos empleketō tai tou biou pragmateiai, hina to stratologarato areskateia;A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.